James Lipton

On stage 1 production

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Also credited on2 works

Nowhere To Go But Up
Sherry!

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In the literature8 passages

• The incidental music was by Laurence Rosenthal, who wrote the score of the 1967 Broadway musical Sherry! (lyrics by James Lipton), which was based on George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart’s comedy The Man Who Came to Dinner .ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Bookwriter-lyricist James Lipton—who decades later would become famous for hosting Bravo’s Inside the Actors Studio —was first represented on Broadway in 1962 for providing all the words to Nowhere to Go but Up, a musical about bootleggers. Indeed, after it opened and closed on successive Saturdays, he did have nowhere to go but up.ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
• James Lipton, author of the book and lyrics for our earlier flop Nowhere to Go but Up, wrote Sherry! to music by film composer Laurence Rosenthal. It was another tryout beset by change: Director Morton Da Costa and choreographer Ron Field (Field had triumphed with Cabaret earlier the same season) were replaced by Joe Layton, who took a “s…ebooks/Mandelbaum, Ken/Not Since Carrie_ Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops - Ken Mandelbaum.txt
• Afterwards, at the dinner after the gala, one of our board members came up to me and said, "I was sitting next to James Lipton during the gala, and he nearly fell out of the mezzanine when he heard you were going to do this. He wrote the book and lyrics to Nowhere To Go But Up , and had not heard the overture in 50 years, since closing ni…ebooks/Tepper, Jennifer/Untold Stories of Broadway, Part 1, The - Jennifer Tepper.txt
• Fosse was the last speaker. “When his turn came,” remembered James Lipton, “he mounted the steps slowly, then turned to face us . . .”ebooks/Wasson, Sam/Fosse - Sam Wasson.txt
• [>] “When his turn came”: James Lipton, Inside Inside (New York: Dutton, 2007), 150.ebooks/Wasson, Sam/Fosse - Sam Wasson.txt

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